Perhaps in five years, an honest historian will publish an honest history assessing the positive diplomatic effects of the President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to challenge the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship’s pervasive spying, economic trickery and utter disregard of international law. The Trump administration has employed tough diplomatic and legal initiatives, and implemented economic and military policies that reduced the CCP’s freedom of action. It rejected China’s expansionist territorial claims. I think the concrete U.S. response has had a powerful moral effect in Indo-Pacific nations that felt vulnerable and victimized by Beijing’s one-on-one (bilateral) economic and military bullying. Big China versus a Small Neighbor was the CCP’s preferred fight. The Indian Navy’s Malabar 2020 exercise, which began this week in the Indian Ocean, is a telling example of a major shift in India’s public attitude toward China. Sailors refer to India’s “Malabar” fleet maneuvers as high-end maritime exercises. The first …Perhaps in five years, an honest historian will publish an honest history assessing the positive diplomatic effects of the President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to challenge the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship’s pervasive spying, economic trickery and utter disregard of international law. The Trump administration has employed tough diplomatic and legal initiatives, and implemented economic andRead MoreRobertsonReport.com / US’s Geopolitical Board
